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Pretty incredible that Trump managed to pick the seven least qualified people in the world to advise him on reopening the economy to his Council on Reopening the Economy
Wilbur Ross thought the coronavirus would be good for the U.S. economy back in January; Larry Kudlow thought it was “contained” back in February; Mark Meadows is just a replacement level Tea Partier; Jared & Ivanka *might* be the least dumb Trump kids...
… Steve Mnuchin is a former Hollywood financier who, as Treasury Secretary, resisted shutting down the economy in the middle of a global pandemic; Bob Lighthizer is at least an actual expert, but trade negotiations don’t have much to do with a global health issue.
If you’re Don Jr, Eric, or Tiffany Trump, how mad are you that Jared & Ivanka get to be on the Council to Re-Open America, but you don’t? What have Jared or Ivanka ever done that you haven’t?
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It’s important to once again emphasize that there’s no actual debate between economists and epidemiologists about when to reopen the economy.

They agree that we shouldn’t try to until we have measures in place—above all, testing—to slow & contain SARS-CoV-2. Image
So if economists aren’t pushing to reopen the economy right now, who is?

The answer is mostly Wall Street and other assorted billionaires, i.e., rentiers. These are people who get money from other people working, so they want those people to work, health risks be damned.
It's class warfare at its ugliest: get back to work making me money in the middle of a pandemic, while I stay safe & secluded.
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This story about COVID-19 patients who seem like they're doing okay, but still have what, by normal standards, are distressingly low blood oxygen levels matched my own experience. statnews.com/2020/04/08/doc…
By Day 10, all of my symptoms were gone except occasional shortness of breath. But the strange thing is, if anything, my blood oxygen levels began to get worse. Maybe half the time, the readings would start out in the low 90s—95 and above is normal—and gradually move up.
One day when I felt particularly short of breath, my blood oxygen reading started out at 74, and then moved up to 97 within a few minutes. Another started out at 88. I also had readings that started at 95, and then *fell* to 82. This was three weeks after my symptoms began!
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Even accounting for how stupid Fox News is, I still can’t believe that @IngrahamAngle is too dumb to understand that the reason projected COVID-19 deaths have fallen from 2.2 million to 60,000 is that we’ve taken dramatic steps to limit the number of deaths.
I know harping on the stupidity of Fox News gets tiresome, but unfortunately these morons have influence with Trump.

Their idiocy is the most dangerous thing in the world right now.
Serious question for @IngrahamAngle: Do you really think there’s a contradiction between epidemiologists saying “If we do nothing, 2.2 million will die of COVID-19” and “We’ve done a lot to try to reduce deaths, so now it looks like ‘only’ 60,000 people will die”?
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